Warm Fuzzies: 30 Sweet Felted Projects (Paperback)

by Betz White (Author)
Key Phrases: felted sweater scraps, chalk liner, felted sweaters, Sprouts Brooch, Pugsly the Pug (more...)

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Product Description
Warm Fuzzies is filled with techniques, tips and patterns for creating over 30 cute and colorful felted items made from cast-away sweaters, including cozy pillows and throws as well as comfortable hats, scarves, pincushions and handbags. There's something to make for everybody in this book, including four-legged friends. Your pup will look adorable in the Haute Dawg Doggie Sweater with an applique dog in a bun on the back. And kitties will flip for the sunflower-shaped cat bed with an attached mouse toy. You'll also find lots of cozy hats, fabulous bags and clothes for little ones, too. Any little guy would love the Robot Sweater Vest, and your favorite princess would adore wearing the Teacup Jumper with the playful mouse finger puppet in the pocket.

The best thing about these projects is how easy they are to make...and there's no knitting involved! Simply throw old wool sweaters into the wash to make fabulous felted material, then cut the pieces apart and use them to make felted goodies. Start with the sweet Cupcake Pincushion--they're so easy, and so very cute!

From the Back Cover

Transform Cast-Off Sweaters into Sweet Felted Treats

Warm Fuzzies is filled with more than 30 cute and colorful projects made from wool sweaters, including cozy ipllows and throws as well as stylish hats, scarves and handbags. There's something to make for everybody, including all the beloved "little creatures" in your life. Your pup will look adorable in the Haute Daw Doggie Sweater, and your favorite princess will adore the Teacup Jumper with the playful mouse finger puppet tucked in the pocket. There are plenty of projects for grown-ups, too, like the Rainbow Bag with rows of colorful waves and the Rustic Throw with reverse applique leaves.

The best thing about these projects is how easy they are to make... and there's no knitting involved! Simply throw old wool sweaters into the wash, then cut them apart to sew into felted goodies.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: North Light Books (December 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1600610072
• ISBN-13: 978-1600610073
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #54,987 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy, Cheap, Gorgeous, Simple projects from a well-put-together book!, December 28, 2007

By	Laura S. Heiman (Northfield, MN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am absolutely delighted with this book. This is the sort of book you show to all your friends and then refuse to lend out because you don't want to be parted from it. :-) I teach a lot of craft classes, and have a fair amount of experience with all sorts of textile crafts. This book is one of the absolute best craft books I have seen, for a variety of reasons:

-The projects require no expensive supplies - just old sweaters ($4/ea or less at the thrift shop) and any old sewing machine (no fancy stitches needed).

-The techniques are clever but very, very simple and quick. This is a fabulous book for those of you who don't like to get bogged down in the fussy details on your way to a finished product.

-The techniques are clear enough for anyone to follow.

-The projects themselves are clever and attractive, and made of all-natural materials.

-It's all recycled, but beautiful anyway - not many books pull that off.

-The techniques presented can all be combined to let your creativity run free.

-The book is well laid out, beautifully photographed, and blessedly free of typos (a pet peeve).

I got this as a Christmas present, and while everyone else was out hitting the mall the day after, I was at the thrift shop gathering sweaters. My first project was a pair of mittens, which, from cutting out to finished product, took perhaps 20 minutes. Then, I went out and shoveled snow for an hour in the completed mittens. My hands were still dry and warm when I was done; they're some of the best mittens I've ever made, including several pair that I painstakingly handspun, handdyed, and handkknitted, in what was probably well over 20 hours each. (Perhaps the instant gratification has something do do with that?) My husband didn't believe I made them - he said they looked too good. :-)

Buy this book! But stay away from the wool sweaters at my thrift shop. They're mine, all mine!

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So many great ideas!, December 11, 2007

By	Kristin O'callaghan (New York) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I ordered this book because those cupcakes looked so yummy, so I hoped that I might find one or two more projects that I wanted to try. When I got it, I found myself getting more and more excited as I turned each page. Every project looked easy, fun, and so beautiful that I immediately wanted to run out to goodwill and buy a bunch of wool sweaters to throw in the washing machine. The projects are so varied--from hats and scarves to bowls and bags--that I know I'll get a lot a great projects out of this. Definitely worth the money. I cannot wait to start!

19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I had a good time with this book., February 4, 2008

By	D. Matlack "Guidedog" (in Wild Wyoming) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book made me feel really good about myself. First of all the projects in this book are so fun and easy that they go together very quickly. Nothing puffs up my sense of achievement like a completed project, more importantly a completed project that dosen't look like crap. I really felt accomplished and that is a pretty important sensation for me when undertaking anything.

Granted, the photos of this book are so brightly colored that you will want your project to look just like the picture. It would be nice, however once you get over that you will find that what you can find out there to work with will be just as cute. I found a truly lurid neon, geometric angora/wool sweater from the 80's that NO ONE in their right mind would wear again. Wrong! It made for a couple of really cute mad-bomber hats that look great on a small child.

A lot of people have noted that finding materials for the project is not always easy to find. True story, but this is also the toughest challenge to finishing these projects. However, if you are like myself and enjoy a good scavenger hunt and like to travel, then you have a nifty little side quest to add to all your vacations and trips.

If you are looking for instant gratification in your crafting, give this one a shot.